Project description
What is the project purpose? What will be its scope? How would it benefit to be part of Wikimedia?

How many wikis?
Will there be many language versions or just on one multilingual wiki?

How many languages?
Is the project going to be in one language or in many?

Technical requirements
If the project requires any new features that the MediaWiki software currently doesn't have, please describe in detail. Are additional MediaWiki extensions needed for the project?

Wikicracy, or Wikidemocracy is a model of government based on the open source and "wiki" concepts that have already been brought to the private sector, i.e. Wikipedia. Some people think it is the future of democracy. The idea, at its most basic level, is bringing common citizens to the law, and allowing for a transparent law process and maximum public input using the latest technology. The pinnacle of this theory is allowing community members in any given jurisdiction direct access to its laws. Using wiki style editing, people can actually edit their demands into laws.

This is wiki, please contribute to this paper if you feel you are able to add value. Thank you.

Collaboration using wikis is one of the few revolutionary inventions of the last few years in the social field. The philosophy behind the tool itself is at the same time simple and extremely powerful - everyone can contribute, in their own language, to the building of human knowledge.

Wikis help people to participate together efficiently without having to hold frequent meetings somewhere specific. Everyone can participate, wherever they may be, provided they have access to internet.

And even more extraordinary, is that contrary to forums, chats, e-mail or telephone conversations, wikis build upon what is previously stated; the first contribution made by someone is not forgotten. Over time the information on wikis is corrected (usually), modified, completed (sort of) by all the contributors that will be reading and editing the articles afterwards. Wikis also provide safeguards if someone intentionally or not had come and deleted useful information.

Wikimedia projects have mainly succeeded where information shall be according to the facts, and has focused on the efficient building up of knowledge.

Why ?

Information is always biased in some way, more or less depending on many things. Sometimes, one may focus on one aspect of reality and forget about other aspects; and, in the worst case scenario, false information may be delivered by someone too close to the subject of an article.

Thanks to the community and the wiki tool, a large amount of people check the articles, and thus can complete the other aspects not mentioned in the article, or put a warning if the article is thought to be biased. The more people that are watching the article, the more likely experts in the field will be looking at it, and the less chances are that errors won't get noticed.

This is the key for most perfect information, once we understand that like everything in this world, nothing is perfect, but everything can be improved and can converge to the (unreachable by definition) ideal of perfection.

Are you satisfied with how decisions are made in your community? Would you like to see more transparency?

Just like the facilitation of knowledge creation by wiki that occurs in an article, the wiki tool can become, if adapted, the ultimate tool for building political platforms, public budgeting, and all kinds of public consultation processed. That is, it can become a basic tool for more powerful, more efficient forms of democracy. The efficient facilitation of wide consensus could be achieved. This arguably could be the future of democracy.

Today, what I propose is to build together the tool that will allow a better democracy, this has been called by others political wiki

Requirements:

Accessible from anyone in the world with internet access

Enabling efficient online proposals study/amendment

Vote/adoption procedures and elections

Robust for virtually any kind of group, association, political party, city board, country, international institution

§Studying websites related to wiki and software, to democracy and to decision making[edit]

These are websites based on wiki and/or democracy principles. They may develop tools for their own wiki that could be used in this project. These websites/wikis may also be the firsts to wish to test Wikicracy betas.

Aktivdemokrati Swedish party running for the national parliament -Riksdagen, using only member e-democracy as decision making tool.

New Zealand Police Act wiki - NZ governmental wiki allowing the internet to input on their police code. While they take input from the wiki, the final decisions are still up to politicians.

Metagovernment - More complex that a wiki, but still a mass-collaboration initiative built on openness and transparency. Meant to scale from tiny organizations to major governments. Appears to use something like Slashdot karma to weight users' input. They also maintain a list of related projects.

ProtoForge (a similar tool, not based on MediaWiki, meant for organizing engineering laws (requirements))

openpolitics.ca. Note: this project seems advanced, and they have probably made changes/add-ons to their wiki that could be use in this project

DellIdeastorm.com Non politic, but intended to bring democracy in public opinion and gather ideas from the users. The main idea seems to be this 'digging' system in which you can vote to make the issue more or less visible in the ranking. This looks much like the idea of 'priority' flag Vmandrilly designed on the proposal. (see above in 'example' section)

¿WhyNot? Another interesting tool, that integrates some style of debate. and Voting for popularity of ideas flow.

WikiPartido - WikiPartido is a project of political party in Spain with a free ideology based on sustainable development and the noocracy. It utilizes a new political system, wikicracy, in which all citizens can perform so bills (law proposals) online through the official website, made with wiki technology, or so offline by mail, telephone, fax, home...